Hide your Hard Disk Drives from My Computer!!

Sometimes you may not want your friends to access your files and folders. Or you may like to hide a specific drive or all drives of your hard disks. And this trick will also help you to make your friend surprised! 

Group Policy Editor will allow you to do this task. You can do it by following few steps. Let's try: 

1. Open Run or Press Windows Logo + R.
2. Now type gpedit.msc and press Enter.
3. Then hit on Administrative Templates from the left panel located under User Configuration.
4. Double Click on Windows Components and find Windows Explorer then open it.
5. Now find and open Hide these specified drives in My Computer. 
6. Click on Enabled and select Restrict All Drives or the drive you wanna hide and hit OK.

If you again get them back, then follow the above steps. But in the 6th step select Disabled or Not Configured and then Apply ==> OK. Now check My Computer. If the drives are not shown then restart your PC. 


Note: This tricks is for your computer security. You can also surprise others. But don't try to harm people or don't make them scared. 

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How to Create a Master Password in Firefox?

Earlier I wrote about how to set a strong password either for online or for computer security. If you wanna know how to create a strong password, read this post. 

Today's world is based on online. Few years ago, only people with IT profession used to live with computer, internet and technology. But today, a very normal person has to depend on information technology. He has to create Email IDs, Online Accounts and he has to remember the passwords too! 

For different reasons a person naturally needs to have more than one Email ID. And he may have many online accounts. And to remember the ID and password as well as type them again and again is a boring job. To ease the users' work every browser offers to save password and username. 

To be honest, to save password is really helpful for users. But at the cost of security who wants to save his password? 

When you save your password and if someone has access to your computer then he might see your password! 

To protect users' privacy Firefox provides an option to set a Master Password. If you have master password then nobody can see your saved password without entering the master password. And before signing in to any site you must enter your Master Password. 

Setting a Master Password

1. First of all, make sure you are using Firefox Browser. Or download it from here.
2. Then go to the Option under Tools menu. 
3. Now hit on Security Tab and then click on Use a master password.
4. Here you will see a new window asking you to enter Master Password. Set your desired password and hit OK. 
5. Now nobody can use your accounts or view your passwords without entering Master Password.

If I Forget Master Password!

If you forget or can't remember your master password then visit the following page. It will give you an option to reset your Master Password. But remember, it will delete all existing password too! 

 chrome://pippki/content/resetpassword.xul

Copy and paste this link in your address bar. Now click on Reset button located at the bottom of the windows.


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How to Make a Strong Password?

Strong passwords are important protections to secure your desktop, laptop or different online accounts. So, make your password strong. 

Keys to password strength: length, complexity and uniqueness. 

• An ideal password is long enough with combination of letters, punctuation, symbols and numbers.
• Use at least 10 or more characters whenever possible. 
• Although it is difficult to manage separate password for each account you have to do so. Cyber criminals steal passwords on websites with very little security, and then they try to use that same password and user name in more secure environments, such as banking websites.
• Change your passwords often so that it can be difficult for hackers to hack. 
• The greater the variety of characters in your password, the better the security. However, password hacking software automatically checks for common letter-to-symbol conversions, such as changing "and" to "&" or "to" to "2."
• Use the entire keyboard, not just the letters and characters you use or see most often.

Create a Password That is Strong & Easy to Remember 

There are many ways to create a long, complex password. Here are some suggestions that might help you remember it easily:

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Note: Always remember that space is considered as a character in password! Capital letter and small letter is also considered as different characters in case of password. 

Test your Password Strength with a Password Checker

Avoid the Following Mistakes while Creating a Password: 

• Don't use any dictionary word of any language. 

• Sequences or repeated characters. Examples: 12345678, 222222, abcdefg. 

• Adjacent letters on your keyboard. Examples: qwerty, poiuy, asdfg. 

• Personal information. Your name, birthday, driver's license, passport number, or similar information.

• And must not use your mobile or telephone number. 

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How to set a password on logon screen?

Most of the computer users are familiar with user account password. It can be set during the windows startup. It prevents the unauthorized access to a computer. But this password can only protect you from a normal user. An expert can easily break this and have access to your computer.

But in this post I am gonna show you a trick that can add an extra layer of security of your computer.

1. Follow the steps below:
2. Press Start + R to open Run
3. Type syskey in the Run and press enter
4. Now hit yes and then update (Make sure that Encryption enabled option is selected)
5. Whenever you hit on update immediately a new window named Startup Key will appear
6.  Now select Password Startup
7. Type your password here and confirm it then hit ok.

Note: Remember, if you enable this password once then it can’t be disabled. You can change the password only. You can also hide the password box during the startup. 

To do so, repeat the steps 1 to 4 and in the step 5 select System Generated Password and Store Startup Key Locally. In this way you can deactivate the startup password. 

How to Format a Virus Affected Flash/ Pen Drive?

In general, when we need to format a pen drive or hard disk drive then we open My Computer Window. Then select the drive and right click on it. Then we can format it. 

But when pen drive is affected by virus, then the task gets some difficulties! Don't worry. Because in this post I am gonna show you how to format a virus affected USB Flash Drive. 

Make sure your computer is secured with a strong and reliable security software. I prefer Microsoft Security Essential. Then scan your flash drive with it. And try to format it. 

If you're fail to format it. Then follow another method. At first, make a right click on My Computer from your desktop. Then select the manage option. Now at the left panel you will find an option named Disk Management. Click on it and you will see all of your disk drives listed here. Now you will be able to format any drive you need. Right click on them and hit on format. 

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Built in Security in Windows 8

Probably you don't need to purchase Anti Virus Program anymore!

Is this true? Ya this is true. And for sure.

Windows 8 has a built in antivirus program named Windows Defender. Windows defender was also included with windows vista and 7. But its functions were very limited. In windows 8, defender has been redesigned like Microsoft Security Essentials. The skin and interface of New Windows Defender is just like MSE. But maybe there is a significant change in case of performance. 

Windows Defender

You will find windows defender in the control panel only. On the desktop, you will find no sign of it. Whenever you insert a flash drive in the system, defender will be scanning it. Scanning process is silent. You will not be able to see it. When any virus/ spam/ warm/ malware is detected it will just show you a message. If you wanna further analyze the drive then you just need to click on the message. All other system is similar to Microsoft Security Essential. 

Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE)

Computer and computer virus are extremely involved. Maybe inactive but almost all computers have some viruses. If it is a Windows Platform PC then the possibility is triple. Because more than 80% PC runs on Windows OS. So hackers' first target is windows based PCs.

To guard viruses, there are many antivirus programs. Such as Kaspersky, Norton, Bit Defender, Avast, Avira and so many. But none of them is perfect. Some of them make your PC secured but slow down the performance. Some of them are over smart. They detect a normal file as virus. Sometimes there are numerous commands. Users get confused with this commands and options. 

Besides every year you need to purchase a new license. And if you are a trial user, then you have some other jobs to do. Each and every month you need to download the program again. Then sometimes Antivirus denies to delete a virus if you are a trial user etc etc. 

But if you use Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE), then you are free from all of these problems. This is the fastest, lightest, safest and more reliable Antivirus I've ever seen.  

Features: 

• Easy to use
• Full Free*
• Fast, safe and reliable
• Real-time protection
• System scanning
• System cleaning
• Windows Firewall integration
• Dynamic signature service
• Rootkit protection
• Protection against real threats, not good software
• Network inspection system

* Your PC must run genuine Windows to install Microsoft Security Essentials. Internet access fees may apply while downloading. 

To download Microsoft Security Essentials, Click here. 

To download offline definition update, Click here.